
As I’m now undertaking my third attempt at IVF within a calendar year I’ve been thinking about how IVF and work fit together.
A lot of women work when they are doing IVF. Not all of course, I have heard of plenty who have never worked or who give up work to try and get pregnant. But the IVF clinic has everything set up to be convenient for working women. The vast majority of the appointments are between 8am and 9.30am with the intention of women being able to drop in before they go to the office.
I’m a self employed consultant, I work mainly from home on short term overlapping contracts. It is a strategic job and I am experienced, so I would be pretty high up if I was doing the same thing in a bigger company. In many ways this is a great way to live my life. I love my job, I’m in control of my own destiny, I can work as much or little as I want, and should I be lucky enough to have a baby I will be able to ramp the work up and down to suit my childcare needs.
But how does this fit in with IVF?
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